EP #1: How to Design a Remote Company from the Ground Up with John Bernatovicz & Bridgette Klein

Design Your Values to Support a Remote Only Company.  To do that requires that you design a company that focuses on GenerosityDesign Your Company that measures its success on how people feel every day.How do your managers make each employee feel?How does each colleague make the other colleagues feel?How the purpose of the business makes each employee feel?Making a Family First Environment:If someone is going through something, ask how can I help you? How can I take something off your plate?Be generous in trying to make everyone successful. Accountability:Design a system of meetings and check-ins that holds people accountable to their greatness. In order for you to be great at what you do, you need to be personally accountable and manage to that yourself.Be open to collaboration and communication from peers, colleagues, clients, and the founder.Create scheduled, brief meetings that are standard across departments.Have standing weekly calls that are important to the business. Have firm-wide meetings Monday mornings.Have a Staffing call on Mondays and Thursdays. Set an agenda and make sure everybody's there. Cross-functional meetings force people to collaborate. Have monthly team training to get people together.Have monthly lunches.Have meetings at the end of the day that brings everyone’s family into the call.Tools:Willory was one of the first 10 clients for Microsoft Office 365.They collaborate through SharePoint.They communicate through SKYPE and ZOOM. Bridgette uses a tool called HubSpot for digital marketing. The Company uses Smartsheet to share progress on virtual projects, and exceptional tools.Absence makes the heart grow fonder philosophy for culture and leadership:Encourage your teammates to get together off-campus!Bring everyone together for a book group, then have a facilitator challenge your employees to develop new skills in their personal and professional life.Follow the data so you can follow up with employees to support them in their work.Raise your empathy and make sure to connect with what everyone on the team is going through…it leads directly to profitability!Podcast Introduction Audio: Show Me the Way, Vendredi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swecA5cnnQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.